The art of travelling between Bangalore - Mangalore/Udupi

This is a discussion on The art of travelling between Bangalore - Mangalore/Udupi within Route / Travel Queries, part of the Travelogues category; Prabhu, looks like this route is worth taking? just the travel time is gona be long. i did take this ...

hi zteg, yes will be taking my Adventure. Which car you will be driving?

Hey Lohith, I will be driving my getz. Taking it home for the first time

Been following the thread for a while. Read the suggestions by most of the BHPians. But kind of scared to take those routes. Scared of loosing the way. Moreover, we cant expect what is going to come next. Atleast over the Shiradi or charmadi or Mysore routes, we know what to expect. I need to reach home as early as possible.

Mangalore received heavy rainfall from 23rd Aug morning and even on the morning of 26th Aug it was raining. During our stay, there was almost non stop rain for 3 days. We decided to start early so that we reach Bangalore before the roads are clogged with evening traffic. Our plan was to start by 6.00AM, but could start at 6.20AM only. Rains had not stopped and it was drizzling. At pumpwell circle, we took the NH17 towards Ullal. Road is decent with a few potholes here and there, but not the type that will slow down your driving speed. At the Thokkottu junction, took a left turn towards Konaje. We have to drive past the Mangalore University, and you will see the Infosys campus on the right. When you see "Mudipu - 1km" stone sign mark, you will see a cross road on the left. One has to take this to reach NH48 at Melkar. As we were reaching this junction, i was surprised to see heavy fog in that area. Road is decent and since it was early morning, not much traffic.

Melkar to Uppinangady stretch of NH48 is ok. I was surprised to see that the road is holding up well near the Uppinangady bridge. Last year this stretch had huge crators. We stopped for breakfast at Uppinangady (Hotel Aditya) on NH48 just after Uppinangady town. Time was around 8.15am. Had Idli Wada, Uppittu, Dosa and some excellent coffee. Food was good and with our stomach filled up, continued our journey. But after Uppinangady, the NH48 starts to deteriorate. There is no road on most of the curves and this slows down the speed significantly. Shiradi Ghat roads are no different. Roads are full of craters and washed away on most stretches. The concrete stretches are holding well. Maybe, concreting the entire Shiradi Ghat the only solution.